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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: holiday season + drinking alcohol + alcohol  Related to the article below (Last Update: 5/13/2008)

Time to talk to family's teen driver
Santa Maria Times, CA - May 10, 2008
According to national statistics, an alcohol or drug-related vehicle crash kills someone every 31 minutes. It's a gruesome clock that just never seems to ...
My health: Nate James, soul singer
The Herald, UK - May 11, 2008
Don't get me wrong, on a Bank Holiday weekend, friends and I will hit a couple of bars and clubs and have fun. But alcohol dries my throat. To drink alcohol ...

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Toasting Cinco De Mayo []
RTT News, NY - May 5, 2008
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For this year's prom, 'Come as you are' ... and stay a while
Westminster Eagle, MD - May 7, 2008
The celebrations bring another set of challenges for young adults who may have exposure to drugs and alcohol at these parties. The challenges are especially ...
Pedestrians a walking danger to themselves
Independent Online, South Africa - Apr 20, 2008
Alcohol played a major role in the problem. The dangers of drinking and walking were tragically evident because the high intake of alcohol could seriously ...
A ?Leading Public Health Problem?
SmallTownPapers News Service, WA - Apr 17, 2008
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Student off to Sask; business plan in tow
NorthernLife.ca, Canada - May 8, 2008
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Ruben Guthrie | Murri fulla films & B Sharp
Australian Stage Online, Australia - Apr 26, 2008
?Ruben Guthrie is a reflection of a society that suffers an ongoing hangover with regards to the way we accept and encourage alcohol abuse. ...

VUE Weekly
Great Head
VUE Weekly, Canada - Apr 23, 2008
A double IPA takes the qualities of an IPA and ?doubles? it?it is hoppier, maltier and with a bigger alcohol punch. Bad Hare clocks in a 7.8 per cent, ...
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Media, product differences and seasonality in alcohol advertising in 1997. -
LB Snyder, FF Milici, EW Mitchell, DC Proctor - J Stud Alcohol, 2000 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... RESULTS: Alcohol advertising expenditures were greatest in the late
spring/early summer and during the holiday season. Television ...

Men, blue collar work and drinking: Alcohol use in an industrial subculture -
CR Janes, G Ames - Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1989 - Springer
Page 1. CRAIG R. JANES AND GENEVIEVE AMES MEN, BLUE COLLAR WORK AND DRINKING:
ALCOHOL USE IN AN INDUSTRIAL SUBCULTURE ABSTRACT. We ...

A review of national television PSA campaigns for preventing alcohol-impaired driving, 1987?1992 -
W DeJong, CK Atkin - Journal of Public Health Policy, 1995 - JSTOR
... with encouragement from the Harvard Alcohol Project (HAP ... during the December I988
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Tracking Alcohol Consumption over Time. -
TK Greenfield, WC Kerr - Alcohol Research & Health, 2003 - questia.com
... accurately than any individual's particular drinking pattern ... used measure of aggregate
alcohol consumption is ... the November and December holiday season--that may ...

Reliability of self-reported alcohol consumption before and after December. -
LT Midanik - Addict Behav, 1992 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... but not significant, amounts of alcohol consumed after ... reports of last year's typical
drinking obtained in ... be overstated because of the holiday season may be ...

Alcohol Consumption, Sensation Seeking and Ski Injury: A Case-Control Study. -
CJ Cherpitel, AR Meyers, MW Perrine - Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1998 - questia.com
... injury, including skiing ability and experience, drinking prior to ... of skier days
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Alcohol and Injury: A Comparison of Three Emergency Room Samples in Two Regions. -
CJ Cherpitel - Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 1997 - questia.com
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Temporal variation in deaths related to alcohol intoxication and drinking -
P Makela, P Martikainen, E Nihtila - International Journal of Epidemiology, 2005 - IEA
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Does Price Matter? The Effect of Decreased Price on Spirits Consumption in Switzerland. -
M Kuo, JL Heeb, G Gmel, J Rehm - Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2003 - alcoholism-cer.com
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Tobacco and alcohol billboards in 50 Chicago neighborhoods: market segmentation to sell dangerous … -
DP Hackbarth, B Silvestri, W Cosper - Journal of Public Health Policy, 1995 - JSTOR
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This Holiday Season, Teach Your Kids The Science Of How Drinking Alcohol Can Hurt Them
As adolescents get ready to attend holiday parties, it's time for parents to have "The Talk" with them about why they shouldn't drink alcohol. Teens are constantly exercising their independence and individuality, and peer pressure is fierce. If their friends are drinking alcohol, chances are your teens will be too.

Even when parents are present at parties, there are no guarantees. According to a study last year by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, one-third of the teens surveyed had attended house parties where parents were present and teens were drinking. Fourteen-year olds were three times more likely than 13-year olds to attend such parties.

So giving your young teen "The Talk" is more important than ever. The Science Inside Alcohol Project, an alcohol education effort from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, suggests that parents try a new approach to curb teen drinking this holiday season. Provide kids with the scientific evidence behind why drinking alcohol can hurt them.
Adolescents believe they are invincible, which is perfectly normal developmentally. So remember to link what you are saying as closely as possible to their personal experiences. Here are five questions parents can ask and answer for their kids to explain alcohol's dangers.

1) Are kids who begin drinking before the age of 21 more likely to become alcoholics?

Yes. Almost half of all kids who begin drinking at age 14 or younger become alcohol dependent at some point in their lives. Less than ten percent of people who begin drinking over the age of 21 become alcoholics.

2) What are three important body organs that alcohol can harm?

Your liver: Alcohol can harm the liver's ability to remove poisons, germs and bacteria from blood as well as produce immune agents to control infection. If you drink alcohol it weakens your immune system and you are more likely to get sick over the holidays.

Your brain: Kids' brains are not fully developed, particularly the part that stores memory. So when you have 2-3 drinks, you are less likely to remember things that happen to you than a grown-up.

Your heart: Alcohol reduces blood flow to heart muscles causing weakness and deterioration. Of course, this is a long-term process. But if you start drinking now, as you get older it can cause problems.

3) Can drinking alcohol hurt your sports performance?

Absolutely. A recent ESPN report featuring Dr. Gary Wadler, a professor at the New York University School of Medicine, stated that drinking alcohol after a practice or a game can impair your ability to play sports for up to 14 hours. Some of the effects are slowed reaction time, problems with balance and steadiness, dehydration, and a decline in fine and complex motor skills.

4) Can drinking alcohol make you gain weight?

Yes. Drinking alcohol regularly can make you fatter particularly in your stomach. Alcohol is classified as a food not a drink because it contains calories. The average alcoholic drink has about the same amount of calories as a large baked potato but no nutritional value, so you don't get any vitamins from it.

5) Can drinking coffee or other stimulant drinks help sober you up enough to drive?

No. Caffeine is a stimulant and it can wake you up, but it does not stop alcohol's effect on making smart decisions or controlling a car. Don't be fooled by people who are "wide-awake drunks."

"Most adolescents don't really understand how alcohol affects their bodies," says Shirley Malcom, head of the Education and Human Resources directorate at AAAS. "Teaching them the science behind the damage drinking alcohol causes will hopefully make them less likely to use and abuse it."

The Science Inside Alcohol Project, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), is developing an interactive, Web-based science and health curriculum for middle school students and their families on how alcohol affects the body. The project, which is part of the highly regarded "The Science Inside" series from AAAS, helps provide children, teens and adults with a science-based understanding of critical developmental and health issues.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science (http://www.sciencemag.org). AAAS was founded in 1848, and has 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS (http://www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, http://www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.

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